There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly update is here.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Last week's discussion post.
Israel is really an excellent essay on how nation-states are formed, the ways in which they are painfully artificial, and the lengths and violence their architects had to go to to create a singular "nation" with no ethnic or linguistic dissidents who could oppose the project. Like i think it's hard to convey to modern people that nation-states as a concept are really only 2-300 years old, that people prior to that didn't think of themselves as "Americans" or "English" or "German" the way we do, and that the creation of these entities required both a lot of theoretical development and I guess media or propaganda, but also a lot of very real violence, both cultural and physical. Paris's careful cultural genocide against minority French language groups and cultures to enforce Parisian language and culture across France, the creation of Germanness to unite the German language groups, that's all way in the past, but you can watch Israel do it over the last 70ish years - Creating everyday Hebrew out of liturgical Hewbrew and making it a commonly used language in Israel, basically re-writing Jewish theology and religion to suit the needs of the nation-state, the use of overt and clandestine violence against competing ideologies and interpretations of zionism, as well as non-zionists. It's much easier to see.
I don't know anything about this. Could somebody give me google hints or links?
Read “peasants into Frenchmen 1870-1914” by Eugen Weber for an exhaustive recounting of how modern nationalism had to be imposed from urban centers to rural populations. Extremely in depth, but useful in illustrating how france as a concept barely existed, even after a “national revolution”. You can also totally skim and bounce around to the chapters you’re interested in
I'll have to check that out. I need to learn more about the process of imposing nation-states in detail.
I would also read Seeing Like A State by James C(IA) Scott. It’s quite anti-authoritarian in a literal sense and devotes a section to the Soviet Union, but a critical read (along with the trashfuture ep where they read it) could be useful for your purpose. Also he gathered intelligence for the CIA in Southeast Asia so keep that in mind
It's good to read the works of the enemy so you can know their minds. i'll put it on my to read list.
Emphasis on cultural. i don't think they've generally killed members of minority French cultural and language groups, but for hundreds of years Paris has worked to eliminate non-Parisian French culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_France
https://www.rfi.fr/en/podcasts/paris-perspective/20210520-paris-perspective-11-the-politics-of-language-in-france
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3623159
I think "Linguistic Terror" is the term to look for but I'm afraid I don't really know much about it in detail. It's more of a one-sided personal vendetta of la acadamie francaise and European hypocrisy about tolerance and equality. The equality of parisians, the liberty of parisians, the fraternity of parisians. Similar movements were underway throughout Europe during the whole period of building Nation-States. England, for instance, has made various attempts to extinguish Welsh, Scots, Irish, and other regional, languages.
I'm honestly not sure how you'd search this. Maybe look for Breton, Occitan, and Basque publications discussing the cultural violence of the French State. Obviously the Parisian dominant culture, with typical Parisian arrogance, will never admit they were in the wrong for violently suppressing minority cultures and languages, though I'm sure plenty of individuals recognize it as a cultural crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_language
https://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/11/brittany.language/index.html
Looks like it'd be worth looking up Arab and North African struggles, too, as I'm sure they're facing just as vicious a campaign to impose Parisian French.